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Dr. Erika Gavenus Guest Lecture

Please join the Department of Anthropology, Laboratory of Archaeology, and Institute of Native American Studies in a guest lecture by Dr. Erika Gavenus titled "Examining interruptions and renewals of food systems through a lens of food justice among Nuxalk, Ahtna, and Yupi'k of the North Pacific Coast".


The Very Hungry Empire: Population Pressures and Agropastoral Management in the Assyrian Empire (c. 950-612 BCE)

Join the Department of Anthropology in welcoming Dr. Petra Creamer, Assistant Professor at Emory University specializing in archaeology of the Near East. Dr. Creamer will be giving a talk titled The Very Hungry Empire: Population Pressures and Agropastoral Management in the Assyrian Empire (c. 950-612 BCE). In the first millennium BCE, Assyria expanded to become the first “world empire”, covering nearly one million square kilometers from modern…


Master's defense by Chris Saunders: Contextualizing Sensitive Imagery in Archaeological Publications and Their Corresponding Ethics in the American Southeast

Chris Saunders will defend his master's thesis: Contextualizing Sensitive Imagery in Archaeological Publications and Their Corresponding Ethics in the American Southeast.


Dissertation Defense by Christina Crespo: Enacting Change Through Everyday Practices: A Laboratory Ethnography of Science Otherwise at CLEAR

Christina Crespo will defend her dissertation: Enacting Change Through Everyday Practices: A Laboratory Ethnography of Science Otherwise at CLEAR.


Sophie Forbes Master’s Defense: Examining 5,000 Years of Harvest Patterns of the Eastern Oyster via Sclerochronology on Ossabaw Island, Georgia

Sophie Forbes will be defending her Marter's thesis: Examining 5,000 Years of Harvest Patterns of the Eastern Oyster via Sclerochronology on Ossabaw Island, Georgia.


Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Our Past Can Guide Our Future

On Thursday, January 23rd, 5:30 PM at Ciné (234 W. Hancock Ave), Dr. Todd Braje will discuss Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Our Past Can Guide Our Future. Drawing from examples in his new book, Understanding Imperiled Earth, Braje makes connections between history and today’s hot-button environmental news stories to reveal how the study of our ancient past can help us build a more sustainable and resilient future.  


Making & Breaking Homes in Georgia's Black Belt: Energy, Utility Bills, & the Infrastructures of Belonging

A talk by Dr. Kristin Phillips "Making & Breaking Homes in Georgia's Black Belt: Energy, Utility Bills, & the Infrastructures of Belonging" Abstract: For many comfortable middle-income households, paying the electricity bill is a mundane, even mindless, act. But for an increasing number of families in the United States, the electricity bill—filtered through the racialized materiality of poor-quality and energy-inefficient housing stock,…


How Chinese Immigrants Built and Lost a Shellfish Industry: Social and Environmental Lessons from California History

A talk by  Dr. Todd Braje   How Chinese Immigrants Built and Lost a Shellfish Industry: Social and Environmental Lessons from California History   Abstract: In the midst of the California Gold Rush, a small group of enterprising Chinese immigrants recognized the untapped resources along the Pacific Coast. Freed from both human and sea otter predation for decades, coastal California was teeming with abalone stocks. By the mid…


Surf and Turf: zooarchaeometry as a tool for understanding the role of environment in shaping past risk-management systems in Croatia and Florida

A talk by Dr. Emily Zavodny:   Surf and Turf: zooarchaeometry as a tool for understanding the role of environment in shaping past risk-management systems in Croatia and Florida   Abstract: Understanding how humans navigated their environments in the past can inform modern strategies for increasing resilience and sustainability. Zooarchaeometric studies- traditional faunal analyses coupled with stable isotopic data- provide an…


A Matter of Time: The Role of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Building Better Archaeological Chronologies

Dr. Carla Hadden will give a talk, A Matter of Time: The Role of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Building Better Archaeological Chronologies, on Friday, November 8th, from 3:30-5:00 pm in Baldwin Hall room 322. Dr. Hadden is the Director and Research Scientist at Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at the University of Georgia. She is an environmental archaeologist specializing in zooarchaeology with over 13 years of experience in the…
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